Claude Chester Elementary is in the Groton Public School District and serves students in pre-kindergarten through grade five. The school has about 390 students and 30 staff members. Jamie Giordano is the principal.
The school's media center offers an Internet-based system that allows students to access materials such as book summaries and images at school and at home. Art classes are offered in the various grades Wednesday through Friday, and the school's music program includes a string orchestra.
Claude Chester also has a school-based health center, staffed with a nurse practitioner and social worker, and offers sick office visits, physicals, immunizations and counseling.